|Wystawione w kategorii:
Masz taki przedmiot na sprzedaż?

Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds (Hardback)

Another great item from Rarewaves USA | Free delivery!
Stan:
Nowy
Dostępne: ponad 10
Cena:
C $59,98
Około172,42 zł
Wysyłka:
Nie ma wysyłki do: Stany Zjednoczone. Zobacz szczegółydla wysyłki
Znajduje się w: 60502, Stany Zjednoczone
Dostawa:
Czas zmienny
Zwroty:
Zwrot w ciągu 30 dni. Za wysyłkę zwrotną płaci kupujący. Zobacz szczegóły- aby uzyskać więcej informacji dotyczących zwrotów
Płatności:
     

Kupuj bez obaw

Najlepszy Sprzedawca
Zaufany sprzedawca, szybka wysyłka i łatwe zwroty. 
Gwarancja zwrotu pieniędzy eBay
Otrzymasz przedmiot, jaki zamawiasz, albo zwrot pieniędzy. 

Informacje o sprzedawcy

Zarejestrowany jako sprzedawca-firma
Sprzedawca ponosi pełną odpowiedzialność za wystawienie tej oferty sprzedaży.
Nr przedmiotu eBay: 235382637588
Ostatnia aktualizacja: 24-05-2024 16:49:20 CEST Wyświetl wszystkie poprawkiWyświetl wszystkie poprawki

Parametry przedmiotu

Stan
Nowy: Nowa, nieczytana, nieużywana książka w idealnym stanie, wszystkie strony, bez uszkodzeń. Aby ...
Book Title
Yellow Birds : a Novel
Publication Name
The Yellow Birds
Title
The Yellow Birds
Author
Kevin Powers
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
0316219363
EAN
9780316219365
ISBN
9780316219365
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Psychological, War & Military, Literary
Release Year
2012
Release Date
11/09/2012
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1in
Item Length
8.8in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
240 Pages

O tym produkcie

Product Information

Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316219363
ISBN-13
9780316219365
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113155538

Product Key Features

Book Title
Yellow Birds : a Novel
Author
Kevin Powers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, War & Military, Literary
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3616.O88348y46
Reviews
A remarkable first novel... The Yellow Birds is brilliantly observed and deeply affecting: at once a freshly imagined bildungsroman about a soldier's coming of age, a harrowing story about the friendship of two young men trying to stay alive on the battlefield in Iraq, and a philosophical parable about the loss of innocence and the uses of memory...Extraordinary., Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds is written with an intensity which is deeply compelling; every moment, every memory, every object, every move, are conjured up with a fierce and exact concentration and sense of truth., "Darkly beautiful....How to tell a true war story if you're more a poet than a novelist? Tell it as a poet would. Tell it as Kevin Powers does."-- Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered, 'Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. Graves, Owen and Sassoon would have recognised this war and the strange poetry it has bred.', " The Yellow Birds is harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary."-- Ann Patchett, Darkly beautiful....How to tell a true war story if you're more a poet than a novelist? Tell it as a poet would. Tell it as Kevin Powers does., This moving debut from Powers (a former Army machine gunner) is a study of combat, guilt, and friendship forged under fire....Powers's style and story are haunting., This is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence., An exquisite excavation of the war's moral and psychological wreckage. Powers evokes the peculiar smell and feel of the war better than any journalist., "We haven't just been waiting for a great novel to come out of the Iraq War, our 21st century Vietnam; we have also been waiting for something more important, a work of art that illuminates our flawed and complex and striving humanity behind all such wars. At last we have both in Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds ."-- Robert Olen Butler, "In the great tradition of Hemingway and Tim O'Brien, Kevin Powers's exquisitely written The Yellow Birds draws us in to the combat zones of Iraq: the watch, the wait ("Stay alive, Stay alert"), the bungle, the slaughter, and the irreparable aftermath."-- Edna O'Brien, "A remarkable first novel... The Yellow Birds is brilliantly observed and deeply affecting: at once a freshly imagined bildungsroman about a soldier's coming of age, a harrowing story about the friendship of two young men trying to stay alive on the battlefield in Iraq, and a philosophical parable about the loss of innocence and the uses of memory...Extraordinary."-- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 'In the great tradition of Hemingway and Tim O'Brien, Kevin Powers's exquisitely written THE YELLOW BIRDS draws us in to the combat zones of Iraq: the watch, the wait ("Stay alive, Stay alert"), the bungle, the slaughter and the irreparable aftermath.', "This is a novel I've been waiting for. The Yellow Birds is born from experience and rendered with compassion and intelligence."-- Alice Sebold, "An unusually spare and lyrical war story....The characters are sketched with as much heart as economy...Like the Iraq heat, which 'had the surprising effect of reducing one to tears in an instant,' The Yellow Birds skulks along, detached and undemanding, until all of a sudden you turn a page and find yourself weeping."-- GQ, Remarkable for its intensity of both feeling and expression. In this book about death, every line is a defiant assertion of the power of beauty to revivify, whether beauty shows itself in nature or (later) in art. Graves, Owen, and Sassoon would have recognised this war and the strange poetry it has bred., "Every sentence of The Yellow Birds is something to marvel over, the words flashing and chiming like spent brass casings. Kevin Powers, who served as an Army machine gunner, has written one of the best books of the year, what could become the definitive novel about Iraq."--Benjamin Percy, Esquire, Kevin Powers has delivered an exceptional novel from the war in Iraq, written in clean, evocative prose, lyric and graphic, in assured rhythms, a story for today and tomorrow and the next., Thoughtful and analytical, the novel resonates as an accurate and deeply felt portrayal of the effects of post-combat syndrome as experienced by soldiers in the disorienting war in Iraq., A novel of grit, grace, and blood by an Iraq war veteran....Kevin Powers moves gracefully between spare, factual description of the soldiers' work to simple, hard-won reflections on the meaning of war., "Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds is written with an intensity which is deeply compelling; every moment, every memory, every object, every move, are conjured up with a fierce and exact concentration and sense of truth."-- Colm Toibin, ReadingThe Yellow BirdsI became certain that I was in the presence of a text that will win plaudits, become a classic, and hold future narratives of the war to a higher standard....a superb literary achievement., We haven't just been waiting for a great novel to come out of the Iraq War, our 21stcentury Vietnam; we have also been waiting for something more important, a work of art that illuminates our flawed and complex and striving humanity behind all such wars. At last we have both in Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds ., A first novel as compact and powerful as a footlocker full of ammo....Kevin Powers has something to say, something deeply moving about the frailty of man and the brutality of war, and we should all lean closer and listen., " The Yellow Birds might just be the first American literary masterpiece produced by the Iraq war."-- Los Angeles Times, We haven't just been waiting for a great novel to come out of the Iraq War, our 21st century Vietnam; we have also been waiting for something more important, a work of art that illuminates our flawed and complex and striving humanity behind all such wars. At last we have both in Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds ., Kevin Powers'The Yellow Birdsis written with an intensity which is deeply compelling; every moment, every memory, every object, every move, are conjured up with a fierce and exact concentration and sense of truth., Powers has created a powerful work of art that captures the complexity and life altering realities of combat service. This book will endure. Read it and then put it way up on that high rare shelf alongside Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien., "Veteran Kevin Powers's searing debut novel brings the Iraq War home in compelling detail.... The Yellow Birds is luminous...an indispensable portrait of the Iraq War and its impact of those who fought it."-- Men's Journal, "Every sentence of The Yellow Birds is something to marvel over, the words flashing and chiming like spent brass casings. Kevin Powers, who served as an Army machine gunner, has written one of the best books of the year, what could become the definitive novel about Iraq."--Benjamin Percy,Esquire, "A classic....Powers's first novel is full of boys, bile, bark, bodies and bewilderment....shows Powers's power to build suspense with substance and sensitivity."--Military Times, A novel about the poetry and the pity of war...Powers writes with a rawness that brings the sights and smells as well as the trauma and decay of war home to the reader., "Compelling, brilliantly written, and heart-breakingly true, The Yellow Birds belongs in the same category as Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead . Thus far the definitive novel of our long wars in the Middle East; this book is certain to be read and taught for generations to come."-- Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust, Reading The Yellow Birds I became certain that I was in the presence of a text that will win plaudits, become a classic, and hold future narratives of the war to a higher standard....a superb literary achievement., "A first novel as compact and powerful as a footlocker full of ammo....Kevin Powers has something to say, something deeply moving about the frailty of man and the brutality of war, and we should all lean closer and listen."-- Benjamin Percy, New York Times Book Review, "A novel of grit, grace, and blood by an Iraq war veteran....Kevin Powers moves gracefully between spare, factual description of the soldiers' work to simple, hard-won reflections on the meaning of war."-- Ron Charles, Washington Post, The book is so heartfelt and so good that it not only reaffirms the power of fiction to tell the truth about the unspeakable, but also asks serious questions of a generation of writers--myself included--who have thus far avoided addressing these disastrous wars directly. ReadingThe Yellow BirdsI became certain that I was in the presence of a text that will win plaudits, become a classic, and hold future narratives of the war to a higher standard. Impeccably structured and told with the poetry of a master, I often had to put the book down, close my eyes and savour the depth of the writing. Comparisons with Hemingway will be inevitable because of the brevity and economical style, and with Cormac McCarthy because of the author's talent for landscape. But Powers builds on this literary foundation to create a style of his own. He writes without hauteur, and his insights into the post-traumatic condition have a degree of sharpness that frequently subvert the classical mode of his storytelling and leave the reader with heart hammering. This is a superb literary achievement. I urge everyone to read it., "A classic....Powers's first novel is full of boys, bile, bark, bodies and bewilderment....shows Powers's power to build suspense with substance and sensitivity."-- Military Times, "Powers has created a powerful work of art that captures the complexity and life altering realities of combat service. This book will endure. Read it and then put it way up on that high rare shelf alongside Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien."-- Anthony Swofford, Compelling, brilliantly written, and heart-breakingly true, The Yellow Birds belongs in the same category as Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead. Thus far the definitive novel of our long wars in the Middle East; this book is certain to be read and taught for generations to come., "An exquisite excavation of the war's moral and psychological wreckage. Powers evokes the peculiar smell and feel of the war better than any journalist."-- The New Yorker, Kevin Powers'The Yellow Birdsis written with an intensity which is deeply compelling; every moment, every memory, every object, every move, are conjured up with a fierce and exact concentration and sense of truth. The music of his prose has an exquisite mixture of control and then release which mirrors the action of the book, and the psychological and physical pressures under which the characters are placed., "In the great tradition of Hemingway and Tim O'Brien, Kevin Powers's exquisitely written The Yellow Birds draws us in to the combat zones of Iraq: the watch, the wait ("Stay alive, Stay alert"), the bungle, the slaughter, and the irreparable aftermath.", Veteran Kevin Powers's searing debut novel brings the Iraq War home in compelling detail.... The Yellow Birds is luminous...an indispensable portrait of the Iraq War and its impact of those who fought it., "Reading The Yellow Birds I became certain that I was in the presence of a text that will win plaudits, become a classic, and hold future narratives of the war to a higher standard....a superb literary achievement."-- Chris Cleave, An unusually spare and lyrical war story....The characters are sketched with as much heart as economy...Like the Iraq heat, which 'had the surprising effect of reducing one to tears in an instant,' The Yellow Birds skulks along, detached and undemanding, until all of a sudden you turn a page and find yourself weeping.
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2012-019435
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23

Opis przedmiotu podany przez sprzedawcę

Informacje o firmie

Rarewaves-USA
10100 W Sample Rd
33065 Coral Springs, FL
United States
Pokaż informacje kontaktowe
:nofeleT6032386459 1+
:liam-Emoc.asu-sevawerar@acyabe
Oświadczam, że wszystkie moje działania związane ze sprzedażą będą zgodne z wszystkimi przepisami i regulacjami UE.
Rarewaves USA CA

Rarewaves USA CA

97,7% opinii pozytywnych
Sprzedane przedmioty: 175 tys.

Oceny szczegółowe

Średnia z ostatnich 12 miesięcy

Dokładność opisu
4.9
Przystępny koszt wysyłki
5.0
Szybkość wysyłki
4.9
Komunikacja
4.9
Zarejestrowany jako sprzedawca-firma

Opinie sprzedawców (63 101)

r***r (3080)- Opinie wystawione przez kupującego.
Ostatni miesiąc
Zakup potwierdzony
Excellent Seller, Thanks!
e***i (42)- Opinie wystawione przez kupującego.
Ostatni miesiąc
Zakup potwierdzony
Pro and fast +++++!
n***j (195)- Opinie wystawione przez kupującego.
Ostatni miesiąc
Zakup potwierdzony
Exactly as described. Highly recommend Ebayer.